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A panel discussion featuring Chancellor Nicholas Dirks and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Claude Steele was shut down on Tuesday after a group of audience members repeatedly interrupted the speakers.Read More…

On Wednesday evening at Sibley Auditorium, Salman Khan, the founder of the online education website Khan Academy, discussed traditional teaching styles in an address on the changing nature of education in an increasingly tech-focused world.Read More…

A group of approximately 100 protesters broke into Wheeler auditorium as entrepreneur Peter Thiel spoke to an audience of UC Berkeley students and community members, cutting his address short.Read More…

CAMPUS ISSUES: Vicious personal attacks against CalSERVE presidential candidate Naweed Mohabbat were not the right way of voicing legitimate concerns about his character

The ASUC election took a turn for the nasty this week. Never in recent memory have elections been this negative, nor has the democratic process made the UC Berkeley student body look so bad. The week’s vitriol, mostly targeting CalSERVE members, began with legitimate concerns about ostensibly inconsistent statements presidentialRead More…

Approximately 250 students and community members gathered for The Daily Californian’s annual ASUC Candidates Forum on Friday to listen to this year’s executive candidates discuss the goals they hope to accomplish if elected.Read More…